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at the same time, he was very involved in the rwanda affair, he travelled to rwanda. and -- but at the same time, soledad, he's also a politician, he just lost a congress ap campaign. a republican campaign. and the republicans as you know, are piling on to their concerns about rice related to the benghazi issue. i might note that neither rah by schmooley as a citizen raised this during susan rice's campaign to the u.s. ambassador to the u.s. >> thanks elise. appreciate it. >>> out front tonight, john boehner offers up his own plan to avoid the fiscal cliff. the president responds and a new heir to the british thrown is on the way. an unusual condition is keeping the duchess of cambridge in the hospital. take tylenol or take aleve, the #1 recommended pain reliever by orthopedic doctors. just two aleve can keep pain away all day. back to the news. just two aleve can keep pain away all day. why they have a raise your rate cd. tonight our guest, thomas sargent. nobel laureate in economics, and one of the most cited economists in the world. professor sargent, can you tell
at the same time, he was very involved in the rwanda affair, he travelled to rwanda. and -- but at the same time, soledad, he's also a politician, he just lost a congress ap campaign. a republican campaign. and the republicans as you know, are piling on to their concerns about rice related to the benghazi issue. i might note that neither rah by schmooley as a citizen raised this during susan rice's campaign to the u.s. ambassador to the u.s. >> thanks elise. appreciate it. >>>...
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it's outside of rwanda, angola. the government had to build this to solve its housing shortage, but very few can actually afford to live there. cnn's dave mckenzie takes us inside a high-rise ghosttown. ♪ >> this is the promise of a new angola. the government propaganda video shows the scale of the new city. ♪ the chinese got. it's quite extraordinary. some five years ago there was absolutely nothing here. just bush. in that time they have schools and medical centers, kindergartens and tens of thousands of apartments. built using angola's oil credit lines with china. the final touches are still being made. but there are highways without cars. schools with no pupils. it feels like a ghosttown. we eventually found someone who had bought a flat. >> so you live in this apartment building? which -- where is your apartment? on the seventh floor. wow. and this building, is it completely filled? >> no, no. >> translator: no. we have through residents in this building. three apartments occupied. >> reporter: is it strang
it's outside of rwanda, angola. the government had to build this to solve its housing shortage, but very few can actually afford to live there. cnn's dave mckenzie takes us inside a high-rise ghosttown. ♪ >> this is the promise of a new angola. the government propaganda video shows the scale of the new city. ♪ the chinese got. it's quite extraordinary. some five years ago there was absolutely nothing here. just bush. in that time they have schools and medical centers, kindergartens...
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that rwanda has in eastern congo. cultural ties and security interests that they would be able to ensure, including other political dissidents. however, that being said, you noted basing that determination, the peace process would have to find a way of to identify a solution which appears to appeal to their long-term objective. in order for them to stop. i am not convinced that anything less at this stage than something close to that long-term objective would cause them to stop. however, if that solution is identified, there could be some kind of decentralization process and the implementation of that agreement will require significant accompaniment and tremendous investment, not only from the united states, but other members of the international community to reinforce the capacity of the countries and perhaps external control and manipulation. that will be, as i say, realistically one of the keys moving forward from this current crisis and it requires a very long-term commitment to building up an economically and ind
that rwanda has in eastern congo. cultural ties and security interests that they would be able to ensure, including other political dissidents. however, that being said, you noted basing that determination, the peace process would have to find a way of to identify a solution which appears to appeal to their long-term objective. in order for them to stop. i am not convinced that anything less at this stage than something close to that long-term objective would cause them to stop. however, if...
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rwanda is just one example of a global trend. so, you know, even in places like saudi arabia, which have septemb centuries long issues with women's suppression, slowly, but surely -- we're not anywhere near where we in the with west think those countries should be but driving is becoming more acceptable. >> there are changes? >> there are change. >> unequivocal data that the best way to improve the world is the empowerment of women, especially the economic empowerment of women. >> when there are more women in the higher offices of business and government there's actually less corruption. >> and more fairness. >> hmm. margaret, let's get together and talk about that after the show, shall we? talk about the sisterhood. >>> let's talk about another issue, which he says by not wiring communities, you allow -- and everybody has cell phones, you actually allow these communities to swrump over what has been historically a hurdle, wiring an entire community, expensive, challenging. cell phones change that. >> he takes head on the divisio
rwanda is just one example of a global trend. so, you know, even in places like saudi arabia, which have septemb centuries long issues with women's suppression, slowly, but surely -- we're not anywhere near where we in the with west think those countries should be but driving is becoming more acceptable. >> there are changes? >> there are change. >> unequivocal data that the best way to improve the world is the empowerment of women, especially the economic empowerment of...
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. >> my favorite clip in that second video informs rwanda where i danced with a bunch of kids in a village, and i thought that's more interesting. i should be doing that all along. so i went back to stride and i told them this idea for another video where i'd take all the e-mails from people all over the world who said, why didn't you come dance in my country. and i would go there and invite them to come dance with me. and we got thousands of people to come out and dance with me for this third video. >> there is movie star fame. rock star fame. even reality show fame. but this was different. >> we came up with this term e-lebrity, somebody who came to fame through the internet. >> with that and e-lebrity status, there was no going back to day job. >> i make videos in which i dance badly for a living. >> i'm working on a book about making the videos. from time to time i get invited to go speak at colleges, grade schools, corporate events and things like that. and i've been enjoying being at home as much as possible because for the last five years i've not spent a lot of time here in seattle
. >> my favorite clip in that second video informs rwanda where i danced with a bunch of kids in a village, and i thought that's more interesting. i should be doing that all along. so i went back to stride and i told them this idea for another video where i'd take all the e-mails from people all over the world who said, why didn't you come dance in my country. and i would go there and invite them to come dance with me. and we got thousands of people to come out and dance with me for this...
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you have been to rwanda and there's a growing sense of that in syria. >> is it humanitarian? how should we do this? it's always a humanitarian crisis when civilians are being killed, slaughtered, the way they are there. i agree with my husband on this. i think it's the right tenor and way to go about this. the one thing we have to remember with my husband is that he has experience in this arena. he's been there. like all of us, who like you said i was in rwanda during the genocide and watched what happened when we stood by and did nothing. we can't do that. we simply can't do that in this case. i completely agree with my husband. >> i watched "game change" this morning, which i know you will be dying to see like a lot of people. it's a fascinating film. i really enjoyed it. a few things struck me. one was that the portrayal of sarah palin is harsh. i don't think she's as slow perhaps as they portray in the film. you don't get to be where she is by being slow as that. there's a vulnerability to her which is touching and you feel sorry for her. most glaring of all is portrayal
you have been to rwanda and there's a growing sense of that in syria. >> is it humanitarian? how should we do this? it's always a humanitarian crisis when civilians are being killed, slaughtered, the way they are there. i agree with my husband on this. i think it's the right tenor and way to go about this. the one thing we have to remember with my husband is that he has experience in this arena. he's been there. like all of us, who like you said i was in rwanda during the genocide and...
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during a post presidential visit to rwanda he addresses the issue directly. >> let me ask you. what you're doing here even just a little bit is it to make up for the inaction of 1994? is there a tiny bit of atonement there? >> i suppose there is. i told them in '98 when i came here, i apologized to them. that i would do everything i could to help them begin again. and when i left the white house, i tried to keep my word. but it's more than just trying to atone. i think these are truly extraordinary people, and i think they don't deserve to have their whole future defined by those dark days. what about the soybeans? what is the yield? >> i think that he is motivated across the continent of africa because there is so much poverty, so much need, and there is so much opportunity. >> back home clinton's momentum has shifted. in november, 2004, he opens his presidential library in little rock. despite torrential rain, three american presidents attend. in the crowd are such friends as barbara streisand and robin williams. >> this library is the symbol of a bridge, a bridge to the 21st
during a post presidential visit to rwanda he addresses the issue directly. >> let me ask you. what you're doing here even just a little bit is it to make up for the inaction of 1994? is there a tiny bit of atonement there? >> i suppose there is. i told them in '98 when i came here, i apologized to them. that i would do everything i could to help them begin again. and when i left the white house, i tried to keep my word. but it's more than just trying to atone. i think these are...
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secretary general ban ki-moon compared the war to the genocides in bosnia and rwanda. there was major fighting in the capital, damascus, today. and in syria's largest city, aleppo, rebels with rifles are battling one of the largest armies in the middle east. it was a year-and-a-half ago that a popular uprising began to challenge the 42-year-old dictatorship of the assad family. the regime is trying to keep reporters out, but our charlie d'agata slipped in, where he met one family suffering terrible losses. >> reporter: syria's brutal war has torn the country apart, family by family. ahmed hameda buried his younger brother on monday. two days later, he buried another. "god willing," he said, "i will see them in heaven." abdu died fighting the syrian rebel in aleppo. alou was killed in a shoot-out, with the feared government militia. "he called me to say he had been hurt" he told us. "i am dying, i am dying, he said. and then he was gone." between them, the two brothers left five young children behind to be raised by the family. in syria, dying has become a way of life.
secretary general ban ki-moon compared the war to the genocides in bosnia and rwanda. there was major fighting in the capital, damascus, today. and in syria's largest city, aleppo, rebels with rifles are battling one of the largest armies in the middle east. it was a year-and-a-half ago that a popular uprising began to challenge the 42-year-old dictatorship of the assad family. the regime is trying to keep reporters out, but our charlie d'agata slipped in, where he met one family suffering...
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bashar al assad falls, we're going to be in a position that we need to defend them because it will be a rwanda-like situation. where these groups are uncontrollable right now, will turn on this minority community. and we don't want to see that either. we re're not taking sides in a civil war. we're just trying to stop the violence. it doesn't surprise me at all and it could get a lot worse and i think it will. >> bob, appreciate your expertise. thank you very much. difficult times. we're following other news tonight as well. including the fundraising haul that michele bachmann is touting. has she made some of that money on the controversy over her comments about huma abedin and others an alleged infiltration by radical jihadists into the u.s. government? we're keeping them honest. [ male announcer ] this is the at&t network. a living, breathing intelligence helping business, do more business. in here, opportunities are created and protected. gonna need more wool! demand is instantly recognized and securely acted on across the company. around the world. turning a new trend, into a global phenomenon.
bashar al assad falls, we're going to be in a position that we need to defend them because it will be a rwanda-like situation. where these groups are uncontrollable right now, will turn on this minority community. and we don't want to see that either. we re're not taking sides in a civil war. we're just trying to stop the violence. it doesn't surprise me at all and it could get a lot worse and i think it will. >> bob, appreciate your expertise. thank you very much. difficult times. we're...
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i had the opportunity to travel with congressman payne and his brother and others to rwanda and to the congo this past august and i saw how he was beloved among people in africa where he had traveled on many occasions before. we shared the experience of going to the memorial, to the victims of the genocide there, and congressman payne told me some stories of when he had been there with president clinton and president clinton had gone back and expressed his regrets in not having done more to prevent the genocide, but was a strong and supporting the nation of rwanda and the people getting their country back together. donald payne had a progressive record and was respected and loved by all. i was fortunate that my life intersected with his, for he made me feel at home as a member of this congress and as so many other members of the congressional black caucus have done didn't have to be a member of the congressional black caucus to be a member of the congressional black caucus. and i yield back. mr. roe: how much time do we have? the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. m
i had the opportunity to travel with congressman payne and his brother and others to rwanda and to the congo this past august and i saw how he was beloved among people in africa where he had traveled on many occasions before. we shared the experience of going to the memorial, to the victims of the genocide there, and congressman payne told me some stories of when he had been there with president clinton and president clinton had gone back and expressed his regrets in not having done more to...
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of international peacekeeping and the international security council and it was during the time of rwanda and she famously said she would rather burn her own career down rather than making the mistake of not intervening in genocide again. she's credited with sort of pushing the obama administration into going into libya and has also pushed hard to get into syria as well. >> you write something in your piece i know i hasn't heard about. she famously flipped richard holbrooke the bird in a meeting years ago and is known to have sharp elbows. reading she might -- one of her favorite words is a word i cannot repeat on television. she seems tough. that could be a good thing, jay, especially in politics, but you say in diplomacy not so much, why? >> diplomacy is saying polite things in front of the public. when you go on cameras and on television as she did on the sunday shows after the benghazi attacks, the less you say, the better. it is about saying the really harsh things behind the scenes but then in the front of the cameras, not so much. it is the opposite of politics. politics you say th
of international peacekeeping and the international security council and it was during the time of rwanda and she famously said she would rather burn her own career down rather than making the mistake of not intervening in genocide again. she's credited with sort of pushing the obama administration into going into libya and has also pushed hard to get into syria as well. >> you write something in your piece i know i hasn't heard about. she famously flipped richard holbrooke the bird in a...
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and this is tragic because the inaction while not as bad as clinton's inaction on rwanda. the inaction has empowered our enemies, the people in the middle east. at some time you have got to take a stand. nobody was asking among the syrian freedom fighters. nobody wanted u.s. troops on the ground. they wanted minimal arms to defend themselves and we outsourced our foreign policy to fundamentalist regimes and they supported the fundamentalists. there is one other issue. the nato air defense patriot batteries going to turkey to defend turkish air space and send a message to assad. that an inside baseball nato issue. and i wouldn't confuse that with giving arms to the syrian rebels. megyn: is there any way of establishing a safe haven any want the viewers to know syria seems so far away it seems like there is a bad guy running it and folks trying to exploit the situation. but the reports are some of these assad forces were going door to door, lining up entire families, shooting little kids in the head in front of their parent and shooting the parent in front of the children. l
and this is tragic because the inaction while not as bad as clinton's inaction on rwanda. the inaction has empowered our enemies, the people in the middle east. at some time you have got to take a stand. nobody was asking among the syrian freedom fighters. nobody wanted u.s. troops on the ground. they wanted minimal arms to defend themselves and we outsourced our foreign policy to fundamentalist regimes and they supported the fundamentalists. there is one other issue. the nato air defense...
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perhaps in the way that president jimmy carter summed up the situation when we ignored the genocide in rwanda. they're poor. they're black. and they don't have any oil. that is essentially what the problem is. the world has been able to look away. you know, news broadcasts have come out of there, there is no shortage of the pictures. but it is an almost intractable problem in that you have private armies in some areas, all competing. it is really about the resources. this is ironically one of the richest countries on the planet today. it has gold. it has colton used in cell phones. it has tin. it has copper. it has timber. it has huge agricultural resources but can't be harnessed because what isn't being stolen by soldiers, business men and wo warlords, is being stolen by government officials. they don't have roads, they don't have education, virtually no health care. >> will the u.s. get involved here? >> i don't think so. it already has the largest u.n. peacekeeping operation anywhere in the world today. and it is simply not being effective. rightly so. they didn't get involved in a fire fi
perhaps in the way that president jimmy carter summed up the situation when we ignored the genocide in rwanda. they're poor. they're black. and they don't have any oil. that is essentially what the problem is. the world has been able to look away. you know, news broadcasts have come out of there, there is no shortage of the pictures. but it is an almost intractable problem in that you have private armies in some areas, all competing. it is really about the resources. this is ironically one of...
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greatest regret as far as being a president on a policy issue is that he failed to do anything as far as rwanda and the generocide that goes on. >> he blames himself. >> he knew what was going on. he made that decision not to intervene and 800,000 or so people were slaughtered as a result of that. i went with him to those countries in 1998. susan rice was with me on that trip as well as assistant secretary for african affairs. he blames himself. >> to retroactively turn that on susan rice is ridiculous. >> that's a former situation that obviously the former president of the united states knows very, very well. piers morgan will have the full interview tonight at 9:00 p.m. eastern. i think you're going to want to watch this important interview. piers is going to join us in our 6:00 p.m. eastern hour as well. >>> both egyptians that despise the government are venting on the streets. like a lot of things, trying to find a better job can be frustrating. so at university of phoenix we're working with a growing list of almost two thousand corporate partners - companies like microsoft, american red cr
greatest regret as far as being a president on a policy issue is that he failed to do anything as far as rwanda and the generocide that goes on. >> he blames himself. >> he knew what was going on. he made that decision not to intervene and 800,000 or so people were slaughtered as a result of that. i went with him to those countries in 1998. susan rice was with me on that trip as well as assistant secretary for african affairs. he blames himself. >> to retroactively turn that...
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if they kill that child, just like they do in the congo and rwanda and bosnia. they made child soldiers. we have been in l.a. we had slavery and l.a. and if we don't begin to understand invisible l.a., we are not going to build to help the people trapped in the skin tones, trapped in human sex trafficking. i know i'm not making any less overwhelming, but i'm tired of doing this puts us a call inside a house. i need the public to understand that it's not overwhelming. we could fix this stuff. if we could fix lapd, now is the time to turn to the county because they've had $24 billion of our money and they're not doing what we need to do at this. the county is overwhelming. if lapd was not both income and the county is k2. but you can still climb k2. it takes a whole lot more. i think i am missing this year jan. i just don't get overwhelmed by the size of the problem and often because i don't know enough about why i cannot do it again at achieving it because they just don't look at it that way. so don't look at these problems is overwhelming. notice they turn the b
if they kill that child, just like they do in the congo and rwanda and bosnia. they made child soldiers. we have been in l.a. we had slavery and l.a. and if we don't begin to understand invisible l.a., we are not going to build to help the people trapped in the skin tones, trapped in human sex trafficking. i know i'm not making any less overwhelming, but i'm tired of doing this puts us a call inside a house. i need the public to understand that it's not overwhelming. we could fix this stuff. if...
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investments in global health in places like rwanda and tanzania. second, our feed the future program, the president's signature effort to advance food security around the world, is predicated on the point that it is cheaper and smarter to help countries learn to feed themselves then to address riots that results from food insecurity. this is an area where we have changed the way we were -- work to focus on results, focus our investments on those countries that are taking on reforms to ensure they can be successful, and rework more actively in partnership with the private sector to stretch taxpayer dollars even further. we have seen import results in places like bangladesh and tanzania, where food production is up and the number of people and number of children who are chronically hungry has gone down. we've implemented new partnerships with pepsi in ethiopia, walmart in central america that are reaching tens of thousands of families and stretching u.s. tax dollars even further and achieving results. these accounts help us deal with food emergencies
investments in global health in places like rwanda and tanzania. second, our feed the future program, the president's signature effort to advance food security around the world, is predicated on the point that it is cheaper and smarter to help countries learn to feed themselves then to address riots that results from food insecurity. this is an area where we have changed the way we were -- work to focus on results, focus our investments on those countries that are taking on reforms to ensure...
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prosecutors want life in prison and said his weapons were involved in conflicts in places like rwanda and angola and there were claims he sold weapons to the taliban, this guy did. the judge claims the sentence is appropriate sips there was no evidence he planned to harm americans until the d.e.a. sting that led to his arrest. was created. >> a decision could come soon on whether george zimmerman, the neighborhood watchman who shot and killed trayvon martin will face charges and the city of sanford is preparing for the outcome. officers and fire department officials are on standby in the event of protests. rallies for martin have remained peaceful but officers say they're preparing for the worst and hoping for the best. zimmerman says he shot the 17-year-old in self-defense. the shooting has sparked outrage, as you know, over racial profiling. >> what a turn around this is. you may remember patrick green, an atheist who at one point was threatening to sue over a nativity scene in athens, texas. just a few months later, green says he's converting to christianity? this after the very ch
prosecutors want life in prison and said his weapons were involved in conflicts in places like rwanda and angola and there were claims he sold weapons to the taliban, this guy did. the judge claims the sentence is appropriate sips there was no evidence he planned to harm americans until the d.e.a. sting that led to his arrest. was created. >> a decision could come soon on whether george zimmerman, the neighborhood watchman who shot and killed trayvon martin will face charges and the city...
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. >> the seed of an idea was planted when he visited rwanda. >> going out into a village i saw kids who were hungry. just on an ongoing basis. >> reporter: but he also saw children eating from squeezable pouchs. >> and i knew there was something you could do to treat malnourished kids, which were these nutrition packs, but there was a supply problem. >> reporter: for three years, he thought about it. >> for me, ideas simmer. >> reporter: but he wasn't thinking about starting a business. until 23-year-old will howser called. the son of a good friend, he too was looking for something more. >> i wanted to start a business doing something entrepreneurial but also doing something that gives back in some way. >> reporter: two degrees, a food bar was an idea whose time had come. >> when consumers are given a choice between doing something which has a cause related to it as opposed to just the product, they'll choose something that has a cause. >> reporter: here's how it works. >> for every bar that is sold, we purchase and donate a meal to a hungry child somewhere in the world. >> so i buy the
. >> the seed of an idea was planted when he visited rwanda. >> going out into a village i saw kids who were hungry. just on an ongoing basis. >> reporter: but he also saw children eating from squeezable pouchs. >> and i knew there was something you could do to treat malnourished kids, which were these nutrition packs, but there was a supply problem. >> reporter: for three years, he thought about it. >> for me, ideas simmer. >> reporter: but he wasn't...